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Date Posted: 04:42:36 05/28/05 Sat GMT
Author: Lynn
Subject: NI: IRA still recruiting, watchdog group says (NYTimes)


May 25, 2005

World Briefing

EUROPE

NORTHERN IRELAND: I.R.A STILL RECRUITING, WATCHDOG GROUP SAYS The Irish Republican Army continues to recruit and train new members and maintain an arsenal, and it retains the ability to return to a full-scale terror war, according to a report by the Independent Monitoring Commission, a watchdog group set up by the British and Irish governments last year to check paramilitary groups in the province. The 59-page report found that both republican and loyalist groups were involved in crime and that loyalists were responsible for four times as many shootings as republican groups. The report "presents a disturbing picture," the Irish government said in a statement, and Britain's secretary for Northern Ireland, Peter Hain, demanded "crystal clarity from the I.R.A." on ending its activities. The four-member commission offered faint praise to Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing, for publicly urging the I.R.A. to seek an alternative to armed struggle. If the I.R.A. disbands, Mr. Adams "will have demonstrated leadership of a high order," it said. Brian Lavery (NYT)

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